Today happens to be Fat Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday, traditionally the Christian calendar day preceding Lent. The secret forces of starch have essentially rendered this religious holiday into something called Pancake Day, however, which has since snowballed into Pancake Month: a thirty day flapjack frenzy created by a deeply sinister two man consortium of sinister maple tree tappers (one is a ventriloquist). Don’t believe Metromix when they tell you Aunt Jemima had nothing to do with this, too. more ›